A divisor generating $q$-series and cumulants arising from random graphs
Uchimura, in 1987, introduced a probability generating function for a random variable $X$ and using properties of this function he discovered an interesting $q$-series identity. He further showed that the $m$-th cumulant with respect to the random variable $X$ is nothing but the generating function...
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Zusammenfassung: | Uchimura, in 1987, introduced a probability generating function for a random
variable $X$ and using properties of this function he discovered an interesting
$q$-series identity. He further showed that the $m$-th cumulant with respect to
the random variable $X$ is nothing but the generating function for the
generalized divisor function $\sigma_{m-1}(n)$. Simon, Crippa, and Collenberg,
in 1993, explored the $G_{n,p}$-model of a random acyclic digraph and defined a
random variable $\gamma_n^{*}(1)$. Quite interestingly, they found links
between limit of its mean and the generating function for the divisor function
$d(n)$. Later in 1997, Andrews, Crippa, and Simon extended these results using
$q$-series techniques. They calculated limit of the mean and variance of the
random variable $\gamma_n^{*}(1)$ which correspond to the first and second
cumulants. In this paper, we calculate limit of the third, fourth, and fifth
cumulants. Observing a pattern among cumulants, we propose a conjecture for the
limit of the $t$-th cumulant in terms of the generalized divisor function.
Furthermore, we also discover limit forms for identities of Uchimura and
Dilcher. This provides a fourth side to the Uchimura-Ramanujan-divisor type
three way partition identities expounded by the authors recently. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2501.15869 |